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<p>I don&#39;t doubt his sincerity now but, I think he&#39;ll get right back into playing them in a year.</p>
Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:40:12 +0000Bigman-Kcomment 283775 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: Newtown Boy Organizes Local Movement to Throw Away ...http://gamepolitics.com/2012/12/20/newtown-boy-organizes-local-movement-throw-away-violent-video-games#comment-283773
<p>Awesome, now If we could get all the other 12 year olds to get off online games we would be making progress.</p>
Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:22:38 +0000tillsbcomment 283773 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: Newtown Boy "Organizes" Local Censorship Movementhttp://gamepolitics.com/2012/12/20/newtown-boy-organizes-local-movement-throw-away-violent-video-games#comment-283765
<p>That&#39;s why I feel like his parents have more to do with this publicity-seeking BS than him.</p>
Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:48:40 +0000BearDogg-Xcomment 283765 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: Newtown Boy Organizes Local Movement to Throw Away ...http://gamepolitics.com/2012/12/20/newtown-boy-organizes-local-movement-throw-away-violent-video-games#comment-283763
<p>Not only that, but thinking back to when this was done with comic books etc, it represents a potential source of peer pressure,... which can lead to ostracizing and bullying people who do not get on the bandwagon.</p>
<p>So initially harmless, but has the potential to do significant harm....</p>
Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:03:12 +0000Neenekocomment 283763 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: Newtown Boy Organizes Local Movement to Throw Away ...http://gamepolitics.com/2012/12/20/newtown-boy-organizes-local-movement-throw-away-violent-video-games#comment-283761
<p>Being that close to real violence, I can hardly fault the community or people very close to the tragedy for being averse to violent entertainment for quite some time to come, but couldn&#39;t they at least sell any received games and donate the funds to a mental health charity or the families of the victims? Mindlessly destroying them (in itself a violent act . . .) reeks of desperate, helpless, sensationalist overreaction to a tragedy that will ultimately have had little to do with violent media. There are a lot of contributing factors to these tragedies and yet the most important are never addressed, in favour of targeting a nice high profile scapegoat like video games.</p>
Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:23:08 +0000Samstercomment 283761 at http://gamepolitics.com